At Fri, 2 Mar 2001, toni welsh wrote:
>hi toni try calling your GI. I get that sometimes and it sounda like IBS with the cramping or it just might be that your body needs to get it out. I sometimes do that too! Hope you feel better. (((big hug))! >I am so confused on why I go from one extreme to the next, I have been >suffering constipation for 3 years, and the last 5 days I have had >severe upper cramping, and diarreha. I was up ti 2 o'clock last night. >I did not go Wednesday, and took senekot on Tuesday night, the pain >clinic said I should take it more often, and yesterday I got the cramps >again in the upper part of my stomach, and thought I had taken too much, >but normally it works in the morning, and I go no more, and I was up >most of the night going. I know this is not a virus, I have been >eating, and trying to think of what I may have eaten, but I have not >eaten nothing different.I may call my GI dr today, this is starting to >woory me, I NEVER get diarreha, and I went all day and night, normally >if this happens, it goes away right away. I am still going this >morning, and I do not want to take anything like imodium, it may cause >more troubles. > >This is something I am definitely not used to. This happened Sunday, >and the stoll was normal the first time yesterday, can laxatives cause >damage to cause this. I am sorry, I am not used to this, and the pain >has not got any worse, until the cramps start. Then it is bad. > >I guess the best thing to do , is call the dr first to see if he may >know what I could do. I am sorry to bother you about this, but I am >tired of this, I told my husband and he said at leats you are getting it >out, yeah, but this is ridiculous. he wants to go to flea market >tomaorrow, and I like to go with him. This is not a sign of >obstruction, I hope, I take prevacid for the acid, and it got worse for >awhile last night. > >TOni